"Return to the army, hold the bridge, hold the pontoon bridge!"

Yu Guozhen's method of destroying the pontoon bridge is nothing more than a few things, taking a boat from the canal to set it on fire, or sending troops to attack the bridgehead - the latter is completely impossible, because both sides of the bridgehead are firmly controlled by the Eight Banners, and even the Mongolian people and the Han army who have taken refuge are not allowed to approach!

Dolgon gave this order, and then whipped Cao Zhenyan on the head: "You dog minion, hurry back and see, what happened!" ”

From the battlefield to the canal pontoon, there is a distance of five or six miles. So Dorgon could hear the distant voice, but he didn't know what was going on there.

He returned to the army with all his troops, but he also knew that Yu Guozhen was close behind, and he didn't dare to let his horse gallop, so he could only send trustworthy minions to inspect.

His army slowly advanced for more than a mile, and at this time, he saw Cao Zhenyan and several messengers coming quickly.

All of them were pale as dirt, and when he saw their expressions from afar, Dorgon knew that something was wrong.

"Bridge, what's wrong with the pontoon?" He snapped and asked.

"Lord Wang, it's over, it's over, the bridge is all destroyed, Yu Guozhen drove the big ship into the canal, and the bridge is all destroyed!"

The messenger who came wept bitterly, Dolgon took a breath, he looked around, summoned a Mel Zhangjing, told him to lead the army to retreat slowly, repeatedly told him to be careful of Yu Guozhen's assault, and then galloped his horse towards the canal.

If the pontoon bridge is all broken, will Hauge on the other side of the bridge ignore it and leave first? Lost Hauge answered. The canal was cut off again, how did he return north?

The road had long been smoothed, so the horse was very fast, and in a short time he came to the bank of the canal, and then he saw four large boats in the middle of the river. The largest of them is even more daunting!

Admiral Huaqing!

He recognized the ship at a glance, for Jianyu. The ship is by no means a stranger, once brought them very painful memories, and today. This memory is coming again!

He didn't know that among the warships in Xinxiang now, the Huaqing is no longer the largest, but the only big ship that can enter the canal from Haikou in Tianjin is the slightly smaller Huaqing!

In addition to the Huaqing, there were three other frigates of about 600 tons that also drove in, because they gave up most of their sail power, only borrowed a little wind power, and relied more on manual fiber pulling and oar power to get here, so the speed was a little slower. Only now, did not catch up with the battlefield!

Yu Dahai looked at the water in the canal, which had formed a thin layer of ice in the early layer, but now it has mostly melted away, and it is only on the edge. There are also a few remnants of ice. He stared at the ice for a moment, then raised his binoculars to look at the north bank of the river.

It's dense, it's all about the captives and the people!

There were also Jianyu who tried to fire rockets at the ship, but none of them could get close to the range, because on the side of the ship, the marines of the Fishery Administration Bureau opened fire fiercely at all the Jianyu who dared to approach the shore!

Hauge has already organized three attempts to rush to the point-blank range to launch rockets. But all three times failed. He stood on a high place, looking at the remnants of the pontoon bridge in the water, his teeth creaking.

"Cunning Mingren, if you have a kind, you will come ashore and do a real fight!" Beside him, the anxious Jianyu began to scold, but what is the use of scolding, he can't damage a single hair of Huwei at all, but wastes his own saliva!

"Attack the ship with fire from the top!" Someone suggested.

But where to find the fire attack ship? Although the Tianjin government did not dare to come out to intercept the Jianyu, but finally knew that the ships were put away, and the boats that the Jianyu could find were used to build a pontoon bridge.

And Hauge did not think that the fire attack ship would be able to penetrate the blocking of the ship's fire net.

Most of the people who came with him were his henchmen, he had already arrived in a safe place anyway, and he couldn't afford to spend too much effort for Dolgon, so he could only look back at his subordinates: "Prince Rui has a lot of soldiers, he must have a way, didn't he have prepared Yu Guozhen for a long time, and now that Yu Guozhen is here, he must have a way to ......"

In his heart, he was uneasy, and his words did not go smoothly.

What can Dorgon do? When he rushed to the river and saw the four boats lying across the river in a big way, constantly driving away the Jianyu by the river with muskets, there was almost no trace of blood on his face!

With such a big boat, what kind of demon method did Yu Guozhen use to drive it into the canal!

More importantly, how did he build a pontoon bridge to cross the river again under the interference of these four boats?

The river is actually not wide, if it is not this section of the river is the main road into Beijing, there is dredging all the year round, but I am afraid that the Huaqing will not be able to come in. Dolgon's first reaction, like Hauge's, was to burn the ship with a rocket. Fortunately, in order to prepare for a possible battle with Yu Guozhen, he prepared a lot of rockets on his side, and as he shouted the order, rows of Jianyu tied fire starters to the arrows as much as possible, and approached the river bank.

What awaited them was still fierce musket fire.

Although the number of marines is not large, and the total number of marines on the four large ships is only about 500, and even some sailors are now acting as shooters, the side of the ship is much higher than that of the riverbank, and the Huwei C musket has a long range, fast rate of fire, and there are sufficient supplies on board, so as long as there are Jianyu approaching, they will inevitably be shot all over by the muskets!

Even if sporadic rockets were fired at the ship, they could not reach the sails, and they were immediately extinguished when they were nailed to the ship's board!

"Artillery, with artillery!" Dolgon finally realized that it was impossible to ignite such a behemoth with rockets, so he thought of another long-range weapon, artillery!

But his order has not yet been transmitted, and Yu Dahai here first ordered: "Send the flag, see that the white flag is not, all the artillery is aimed here to bombard me!" ”

There are 24 guns on one side of the Huaqing, plus a total of 36 guns on the other three ships, this is a total of 60 guns, even if Jianyu has the strength of the whole country, it may not be able to make so many good guns, so when these 60 guns began to spew out the fire of revenge, Jianyu's first reaction was not to flee for his life, but to freeze.

In just three minutes, all sixty cannons were fired, and because of the range, solid shells were used, which did not have the terrifying effect of flowering shells. But under the fire of artillery, the high post where Dolgon was located was rolled out of twenty or thirty mud ditches, and half of Dolgon's Goshha had already become the flesh at the bottom of the ditch!

"Prince Rui, Prince Rui!"

"Protect the prince, come up to protect the prince!"

The sound of the cannon stopped for a while, and it was only then that Jian Yu realized what was happening and shouted one after another. Dolgon could no longer maintain his composure at this time, and his usual self-contained general bearing was gone at this moment!

"Drag me out, drag me out!" He lay on the ground screaming, holding down the horse with only the front half of his body left, his banner was the target of concentrated artillery fire, but he was lucky that a cannonball blew half of his horse away, and the other half made more intimate contact with him.

The remnants of Goshha dragged him out from under the horse's carcass with all hands and feet, and he was covered in blood, and I don't know if it was human or horse blood. With fear in his distorted face, he turned around without hesitation, shoved a lucky uninjured Goshha away, grabbed his horse, rolled over and rode on, and rode away.

This place is within the range of the opponent's artillery, and the first round of shooting did not kill him, it was his luck, but he didn't dare to gamble on his luck and wait for the second round of the opponent's artillery!

Not only him, but all the prisoners were now retreating like a tide, as far away from the river bank as possible, for fear that they would be the target of the next round of shelling. The banks of the Haihe River, which were originally crowded, suddenly vacated a large area.

Only on the high hill that had just been bombarded, the bright red blood stains were particularly obvious.

Hauge on the north bank didn't see what was happening on the south bank clearly, but when he heard the continuous sound of cannons, he immediately understood that this time he was afraid that it would be a big mess.

"Retreat, retreat!"

He shouted loudly, but he didn't know that his banner that showed his identity had long since become the target of the gunners on the other side.

Sixty more cannons rang out in unison, and a thick cloud of smoke rose from the canal again, obscuring everyone's sight. Jianyu could not see the full shadow of the ship, and the people on board could not see the situation on the shore clearly. Mao Yuanyi stood beside Yu Dahai, leading but not firing, and then firing the cannon when Jianyu gathered the most, this was his idea, so at this time he couldn't help but twist his beard and said: "It is said that the old slave died of sores after Ning Yuan's cannon, this time I don't know if I can kill a few old slaves' slaves and grandchildren!" ”

"Even if they can't be killed, the tiger guards will chase them and hunt them down and execute them." Yu Dahai said.

Mao Yuanyi nodded and was about to say something more, but accidentally inhaled a puff of gunpowder smoke and coughed violently, Yu Dahai hurriedly stepped forward and patted him on the back, laughing: "Old man, it seems that you are not blessed to enjoy the smell of gunsmoke, the sea is for power, the artillery is the best, this smell of gunsmoke is unavoidable!" ”

"Who said that, muskets are used on land now, how can there be less gunsmoke...... Mao Yuanyi coughed, then straightened his waist and sighed: "Look, look!" ”

He pointed to the north bank of the Haihe River, and saw that the Jianyu there were in a mess, and they seemed to be crowding towards the place where Fang had just concentrated the bombardment. Mao Yuanyi has been in Liaodong for a long time, and he has also served as the deputy chief soldier of Liaodong, and when he saw this, he said in surprise: "Could it be that he really hit the big man in Jianyu?" ”

"Big Baylor is dead!"

"Hauge is dead!"

There was such a cry from the north bank, Hauge was the commander-in-chief of the Jianyu on the north bank, he was shot and turned into mud, and the rest of the Jianyu had no command restraint for a while, so they panicked. At first, they flocked to Hauge's death to see if it was true or not, but later, when they realized that it was the terrible damage caused by the terrible ship, they panicked and fled, and by the time the generals who had crossed the river with Hauge began to pack up their troops and horses, it was too late.

The ship's artillery roared again at this time, accurately hitting the restrained group of Jianyu, who could no longer hold on, and collapsed like an avalanche!